Sunday, August 31, 2014

Shakespeare
in a nutshell by bunpeiris

Was Shakespeare [1564- 1616] fortunate
to have lived in the golden age [Queen Elizabeth’s reign: 1558–1603] of
English history, or was it the golden age that was fortunate to have him?

The worst of times, the best of worksIt has been argued
the best of the literary works comes into life in the worst of times: the
living testimony towards such a persuasion comes in the form of no less than the glorious
literature of Russia. The best of the literary works of Russia [Crime &
Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1866; War and peace by Tolstoy in 1869] had all
sprung up during the worst of its times [czarist autocracies: reign of
Alexander 111 1845-1894; reign of Nicholas 11 1894-1917].

Had
Shakespeare lived in the worst of times, would he have even surpassed his unparalleled
achievements as those stand today? Would he have infused still greater depth of
suffering in the heart of King Lear at the death of his beloved daughter,
Cordelia?

No, no, no life!Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,And thou no breath at all?King Lear (5.3.13)

"Has the world known a greater sorrow than a death of a child while the father is still alive?"bunpeiris

A
hush has descebded on the Globe Theatre. Th packed audience of three
thousand-lords, ladies, gentlemen, merchants, tradesmen, sailors, lawyers,
servants, apprentices, schoolboys, prostitutes, brothel keepers, many of whom
have paid only one penny to stand as “groundlings” in front of the stage-are
watching a brand –new play in broad spring daylight.. Richard burbage enters as
the old King Lear. In his arms in his daughter, Cordelia, played by a boy actor.
Burbage fills the rapt silence with sounds of torment even more painful than
his cries of madness on the heath an hour or so earlier. His beloved Cordlia is
“dead as earth”. Nothing as unremittingly bleak has ever been seen on the
English stage. Departing radically from previous telling of the story. Willaim
Shakespeare, the play’s 42 year old author, has been brave to let Cordelia die.
By doing so he has raised stark questions about the nature of existence,
questions raised afreash each time King Lear is performed. Arguably the
greatest of Shakespeare’s plays, King Lear is also one of humanity’s finest
artistic achievements.

Stanley Wells: Shakespeare off the record

Best of works, best of timesJames S. Shapiro [born 1955], the Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia Universitywho specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period, contends that Shakespeare was born in the right place and time: “his genius flourished in the richly collaborative world of the Elizabethan
theater, and his dyer’s hand was steeped in the social and spiritual
contradictions of an age poised between the medieval and the modern.”

Following
the ascension of Elizabeth [1533-1603] to the throne, significant concessions
were extended to the Catholics in appeasement; following the defeat of Spanish
Armada in 1588, England established herself as the leading maritime &
commercial power of the world.
Furthermore, importance of the arts to the life and legacy of her nation was
recognized by Queen Elizabeth [reign: 1558-1603]. The Queen being fond of the
theater, extended Royal patronage to establish professional theaters attracting
15,000 theatergoers per week in London, a city of 150,000 to 250,000. Marlowe’sDoctor
Faustus, Edmund Spenser’sFaerie Queen, and Sir
Philip Sidney’s Defence of
Poesiewere all
written during this golden age. And Shakespeare was the favourite dramatist
of the queen.

Then
again, following the death of Queen Elizabeth, King James [reign: 1603-1635] heartened the hearts & buoyed up the livesof the dramatists. The king’s men were
frequently summoned to playact at
Whitehall, at Greenwhich, or at Richmond. Shakespeare, who was beieved to had never travelled overseas, probably lend his ears to Sir Fracnis Drake [1540 –1596], who circumnavigated [1577 -1580] only for the second time in mankind, was the second-in-command of the English fleet that blasted off the mighty Spanish Armadain 1588 and to Sir Walter Raleigh [1554 –1618], theEnglish aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician,
courtier, spy, and explorer.

A king with a king-size heart for learning,
James elevated Shakespeare’s theater company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men to the
status of the King’s Men. Will was the enlightening light; Will was the all
consuming fire; Will was the soul enhancing music; Will was the life giving water. He
said it all: all about humanity, human heart being his workshop. Since then he
has been all those & more.

To
draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;
While I confess thy writings to be such
As neither man nor muse can praise too much;To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William
Shakespeare by Ben Jonson [1572- 1637].The literary humanistTo
his friend and rival dramatist Ben Jonson, Shakespeare was the Sweet Swan of Avon and not of an age, but for all time, man for all ages. Since Ben Jonson, a stream of literary lumineries have articulated his concise words in longer versions: here goes Joeph Fiennes [born 1970].

When I was preparing to play him in the film Shakespeare in Love, my starting point was that he was an incredible observer of the people around him, soaking up their characteristic like blotting paper. The key is that Will Shakespeare was Everyman; politically his views ranged across the board: in religious matters he was non-committal; sexually he was able to inhabit all points of view. He could deal with everyone from street urchins to monarchs, and he had the same problems as his characters. Being aware of his own doubts & contradictions made him intensly human.

Shakespeare is for all ages, all cosmosJoseph Fiennes goes on

Despite the huge thrust of technological advance
since the Elizabethen era, the human condition Shakepeare wrote about remains
timeless. We still fall in love &get angry and avaricious; we are
materiliastic or fanatical or seek spoirtually. Here was a man who understood
all the pain of being human, yet loved life & humour& fun. Put simply,
he was one of the greatest-ever literary humanists.

Language for self-expression for every human
emotionStanley Wells: Shakespeare off the record

Over the past four centuries, Shakespeare’s iconic status as a poet & dramatist
has come to represent what it means to be a genius, and his words have provided
a language of self expression for every human emotion. Shakepeare is cited as
an athourity in moral, political and cultural contexts that even he could have
never dreamed of. His very name can stimulate approval, challenge, argument,
lunacy, brilliance and, occassinlay, especially among schoolchildren, boredom.
Shakespeare’s legacy represents more than the story of a life & its age; it
has dominated artistic & cultural endeavour in every generation that has
followed him.

The Invention of the HumanFurthermore, the leading
light of Shakepearan works, Harold Bloom [born 1930] 1930 would go further: Shakespeare
"essentially invented human personality as we continue to know and value
it."
"Before Hamlet taught us not to have faith
either in language or in ourselves, being human was much simpler for us but
also rather less interesting," Bloom writes. "Shakespeare, through
Hamlet, has made us skeptics in our relationships with anyone, because we have
learned to doubt articulateness in the realm of affection."

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And when in 1983 the Secretary of State required the nine GCE boards to devise a common core for A level, the English working party could agree only one thing that is not vague and general: that at least one play by Shakespeare must be studied.(4) (See note 10 for an explanation of the British examination. system.) english.illinoisstate.edu/strickland/rsvtxt/sinfield.htm

Of Shakespeare

In the British education system, the 1990 National Curriculum in English lists Shakespeare as the only author that all British schoolchildren, over the age of 13, must study(Curtis, 2008).

In Education

“Our education, in the English-speaking world, but in many other nations as well, has been Shakespearean. Even now, when our education has faltered, and Shakespeare is battered and truncated by our fashionable ideologues, the ideologues themselves are caricatures of Shakespearean energies.” Surprisingly as it may seem, researchers have concluded that almost 20,000 musical compositions were influenced by Shakespeare (Gross, 2003). The character of Hamlet enabled Freud to, in part, develop his theories of human nature and so emphasizes Bloom’s point (Paraisz, 2006). Shakespeare’s influence, as evidenced from the examples above, is far-reaching. Where, in Shakespeare, are these seeds of education theory sown? .newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Shakespeare.html

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Poetry, the elemental speech, is the like the elements. Its primary function is not to convey thought, but to reflect life. It shows man his soul, as a looking glass does his face. There hangs the mirror on the wall, a definite object, the same for all. Yet whoever looks into it sees not the mirror but himself. We all live in the same world, but what different worlds we see in it and make out of it: Caesar's, Jesus', Machiavelli's, Mozart's--yours and mine. Harold C. Goddard

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"Shahrazad (Scheherazade) had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."

"Stories are indispensable to the life, they tell you how to live & why. " Street story teller to Princess Shahrzad (Scheherazade), the narrator of 1001 Arabian nightsIn The Thousand and One Arabian Nights, written in Persia between the 9th and 13th centuries,Adam's Peak Sri Pada of Serendib (Sri Lanka) is one of the strange places that Sinbad visited."I made, by way of devotion, a pilgrimage to the place where Adam was confined after his banishment from Paradise, and had curiosity to go to the top of the mountain" narrated Sinbad

I am the dispossessed, a grain of the suppressed masses of my motherland: nobody. The huge sacks of high and mighty run over me.I am the dispossessed, a drop of the hungry and angry tide: nobody.The tsunamis of the high and mighty carry me off to non-existence.I am the dispossessed: a falling leaf of a giant tree:nobody. The storms of the high and mighty sweep me off the earth.I am you, the suppressed.Still I am free, free enough to tell the high and mighty, NOThey cannot buy me off. I don't sell my people, my motherland for few dollars.bunpeiris

Amra Kara? (Who are we?)
Bastuhara (We are the dispossessed)Bengali novelist Amitav Ghosh: "The Hungry Tide" The Author of "The Glass Palace" & "Sea of Poppies"

“ What can we do except taking up arms when the causes of our suffering are not addressed & our grievances are not redressed? Asks the baby of the family.

“Suffer them,” replies the mother of ten. She is not educated but, far from it, she is not even literate. but she never misses the Sunday sermon by the local parish priest.

It is not up to you to finish the work. But neither are you free not to take it up. (Avot 2:16) My Sri Lanka Holidays Dot Com begins.

'Write & record"
His dying message to fellow Jews by Simon Dubnow, an aged Jewish historian who was shot dead by the Nazis in Latvia in 1949.bunpeiris begins.

BIG BUDDHA AND LITTLE IGAL VIHARE, POLONNARUWA, SRI LANKA HOLIDAYS

Robert Knox, escaping in 1679 from a long captivity among the
Sinhalese, had brought home stories of “a world of hewn stone pillars”
he had passed during his flight through Anuradhapura of Sri Lanka Holidays. His narrative was printed in 1817. Nearly a century & a half after
Knox’s journey, a pioneer officer, Lieutenant Mitchell Henry Faganof
the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, forcing his way through almost impenetrable
undergrowth in 1820 had come face to face with a colossal statue gazing
out at him from the foliage: Gal Vihara.
A colossal figure of Buddha
cut from a granite wall was most serenely gazing at him from out of the
foliage. “I cannot describe what I felt at that moment,” he wrote.

Neither could I when I first saw the great statues at the tender age
of 8. It was like dream that you dream when just about to wake up. And
you wake up with the dream & still on a cloud. But the upright Big
Buddha most definitely smiled at me. Am I dreaming? No, Big Buddha
smiled again. bunpeiris

Since then, for a decade, I had been traveling yearly with my
maternal grandfather who used to take all his relations & friends
numbering around 30 for pilgrimage of fortnight at his expense on
yearly basis during his prosperous days. Imagine 4 a.m. Lakshpatiya,
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 1970s, young & old relations & friends all
in full swing, pilgrim mode, spellbinding stories of village serpent
medic Grand uncle Romeal (still tall and as straight as an arrow in
Clint Eastwood style), Pol mal (coconut fronds), Ebert Silva
passenger bus, Buddhist Homage Gathas (Thunyam sarane), large metal
cauldrons & large clay pots, stuff & goods, baskets &
sacks, dhal & dry fish, spices & local Palm honey sweet. How do
you begin to write, how do you end writing? I have no idea.
My father (Baminahennadige Donald Benedict Peiris, Lakshapatiya Rd., Moratuwa
read “THERE’S A KIND OF HUSH by bunpeiris” in www.bunpeiris.com) had been warning my
maternal grandfather against excessive advertisements. Headstrong &
flamboyant to the boot, my maternal grand father (Prangige Silmon Peter
Peiris Gunaratne, Lakshapatiya, Moratuwa) had a devil may care attitude
& paid scent respect to book keeping. Somebody had been following
his two page advertisements in newspapers, musical advertisement at 11
am onRadio Ceylon: Aswaya gone tik tik. (then kids hit song Come’n
Let’s ride the horse) Kumara Shanthiya (meaning Blessings to the Prince
in Sanskrit) sure-fire Ayurvedic medication syrup of infants, toddlers,
the tender young for all stomach upsets. The high flying stalwart was
destined, most unfortunately, to have his wings clipped.
Another decade later, the greatest spoil sport of all time, Department
of Inland Revenue of Ceylon made Ayu. Dr. Prangige Silmon Peter Peiris
Gunaratne of Sri Vijaya Oushada Shalwa (Shri Vijaya Medical Hall, next
to Vijitha Cinema, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka) bankrupt. How the mighty have
fallen! Like an enormous tree that gave shade to all who came. My
flamboyant philanthropist grandfather who had a couple of 1 Shri
licence plate British made Austin Cambridge cars & a sizeable
property of lands & houses lost all.
The concept of Sri Lanka Holidays commenced forming in the hearts of hearts.
Another decade later when I remarked I would love to set up luxury tour
operations to draw in foreign tourists to show off my land & name
the tour packages My Sri Lanka Holidays
and Peter Peiris Fortnight, my father chuckled that my maternal
grandfather would turn in his grave: his was charity pilgrimage with no
pretensions of comforts at all; my dreams were of luxury travel with a
view to profit. Not exactly, this is Sri Lanka Holidays, the Total
Holiday Experience, I protested. I went on pushing my point. All the
same, it’s a fair deal, I take my country to them, or rather bring them
to my land, I argued. I reveal for them to revel with Sri Lanka Holidays.

It is possible you are right, the way you see it-reveal our country to the world, or enlightening the others of our heritage.. oh! yes that's a higher calling. That doesn't fall anywhere in the spheres of a banal businessman. My father pondered.

Riolta Lanka Holidays: We Reveal For You To Revel is presented by bunpeiris of My Sri Lanka Holidays and Skanda Pandia Lanka Light and Enlightenment.
In time, my grandfather was to provide me the inspiration to compose
108 web page website on Sri Lanka with great emphasis on the numerous
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Unlike the German tourists, the British tourists seek for touring
holiday packages with cultural orientation. After all it was them who
rediscovered the lost cities of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa &
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Then, by nature, bunpeiris is a nationalist. That is only in the true
form and good form of nationalism. Sir Herbert Stanley, Governor
General of Ceylon in 1929 narrated bunpeiris's style of nationalism.
"That is one form of nationalism to which all of can subscribe in any
circumstances, a love of one's own country, interest in one's own
history, and the desire to to elucidate what is obscure in it."

The
Prince and Princess of Wales’ Colleges of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka were established to
commemorate the arrival, in 1875, of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, the eldest
son of Queen Victoria and the Princess of Wales to Sri Lanka ( then called
Ceylon) by theRothschild of Ceylon, the greatest philanthropist ever in Sri
Lanka, Sir Charles Henry de Soysa
Dharmagunawardhana Vipula Jayasuriya Karunaratne Dissanayake (3rd
March 1836 , Idama, Moratuwa -29th September 1890). Sir Charles Henry de Soysa was a grandson of philanthropist
Warusa Hennedige Joseph de Soysa, originally of Devinuwara or Devundara and
HennedigeFrancisca Peiris of Moratuwa.

The Warusa Hennedige families had their origins in Devinuwara and during the Portuguese era (1505-1640), migrated to Panadura,the city immediately to the south of Moratuwa. The citizens ofPandaura, KalutaraandWadduwato the south andRatmalanaandMount Lavinia - Dehiwalato the north of densely populated Moratuwa, has been in interaction with each other and Moratuwa to a very significant extent for centuries.Since the days of the Dutch (1640- 1796) and through the colonial era of the British (1796-1948), the Warusa Hennedige de Soysa's in association with the Hennediege Peiris'sMoratuwa of were engaged in transportation of essential provisions and food stuffs to the Central Highlands. On the return journey, the plantation products were taken to the low lands.During the Dutch eraCeylon Cinnamonand Ceylon Tobacco became major trading commodities.Then again during theBritish eraCeylon Coffee, which became popular as the legendary Moka Coffee of Yemen and Brazilian Coffee in the European markets, was the kingpin of the plantation industry and trade of Ceylon. De Soysa family made fortunes. Following the Coffee blight, the lionhearted planters found Ceylon Tea the most lucrative business ever in Ceylon.(1640-1796)

THE bunpeiris TRUTHThe following neat dozen is compiled by bunpeiris of My Sri Lanka Holidays.1. There is no way that you can create a just society by wounding people, maiming people, killing people.Former IRA terrorist, the master bomber Shane Paul O'Doherty, renouncing violence2. "When I was 16, nothing seemed so romantically self-sacrificial as a fight against the odds for an ideal. But I didn't realize that militaristic activities repudiated the democratic process and the will of the people."Former IRA terrorist, the master bomber Shane Paul O'Doherty, renouncing violence3. In my view, one of the principal lessons is that the end, no matter how noble and attractive it may seem, never justifies indiscriminate means.The man who brought an end to the cold war, President Mikhail Gorbachev (Noble Prize for Peace in 1990)4. My message would be that there are things worth fighting for. There always will be, just as there will always be people who think that there is nothing worth fighting or dying for.A world in which brutality and lawlessness are allowed to go unchecked is not the kind of world we are going to want to live in.Someone has to say, "This isn't right, you can't get away with doing this. And if you never stand up, more lives can be lost farther down the road."Lt. Gen Walter Boomer, Commander of the U. S. Marine forces then camped in the Saudi Arabian desert in 19905. 1.7 million Cambodians were killed (1975-1979)by the terrorist Khmer Rouge Pol Pot. Nobody was there to save the innocent. Since China has allied with Cambodian government, USA had to turn the blind eye to the mass murderers of the killing fields. Today you have museum of human skulls, thousands in glass cupboards. We agree with the illustrious general.Skanda Pandia Lanka Light and Enlightenment6. You know what's wrong with the world today, Andy? People aren't true to any one philosophy. They pick and choose among all different ones.They choose loyalty when it suits themThey choose change when it suits themThey do exactly as they please, and they can always find and justify what they're doingThey can make it seem like, no matter what, they're being true to some morality or other.But you can't just pick little pieces of the package, Andy, You go with the whole program, or it doesn't mean a thing,Like this business with Tommy Agro- supposedly he's got this certain set of rules, this code of honour. He lives by it until there's a crunch, then what happens? Uh-Oh, the rules just changed. Now it's survival, the law of the jungle, saving his own skin.Well, okay that sounds fine too. Only, what happened to the first code? He hasn't just left it behind, he's damaged it. That's what people don't realize. You take this pick and choose attitude, you drain the life out of your own beliefs. After a while, what's left?Mafia Captain Joseph "Pinney" Armone in a conversation with FBI Agent Andy Kurins7. What the terrorists do: to correct one supposedly an injustice, bring about millions of forms of injustice; to bring about so called liberty, put millions into the prison of terror; to bring about so called freedom, bring misery and tragedy to millions. Are you the so called Liberator? bunpeirisSkanda Pandia Lanka Light and Enlightenment8. The country is exhausted from 30 years of war. We have not even built one kilometer of road; there are no schools, no clinics, no employment, no security. All leaders have to respond to the needs, pressures and anxieties of their own people. Our people now feel that armed struggle is no longer the road. So we could not lead them anymore if we still insisted on armed struggleRebel leader Jonas Savimbiof Angola in 1995, having lost 500,000 humans9. Time passes, and marathon runners get tired. This has been a very long race-too long. I feel I am a slave of the revolutionPresident Fidel Castro in 199310. Following this Castro, undid his military fatigues and for the first time, wore a three-piece suit and attended a Paris Fashion Show. Hail Castro!11. At the core of the Greek belief system lies the conviction that there are unchanging absolutes in the world, ageless and immune from situation and interpretation, a small but vital body of knowledge that is largely agree-on and indisputable. It is this moral universe which Antigone called 'agrapta nomima' the unwritten laws12. One of the most important things in the Torah is "Do not murder"Baruch Goldstein, the gunman who killed 29 Muslim worshipers at theHebron Mosque, in an antiwar essay he wrote at age 13 in Brooklyn , New York, U. S. A.Sri Lanka Holidays mince no words.Quotations are compiled by bunpeiris

THE bunpeiris TRUTH plus"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."Concetta Campanati to Kenneth Toomy in Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson : The Hound of Baskervilles"Every man has his use, even if only to gather dried cow dung in the Gobi for fuel" Chinggis(Ghengis Khan)"I may be a bum, but my dog will still love me" American swimmer Matt Biondi, five times gold medalist in Seoul in 1988,prior to his events in Barcelona, 1999. Mr. Biondi lost his Tarzan title to the Russian Alexander Popov yet collected a gold for relay which brought his carrer medal total to 11, tying him with legendary Mark Spitz-"Therefore, always perform actions which should be done, without attachment; for by performing action without attachment, man attains the supreme" Sri Krishna to Arjuna: Mahabarata."I was born among human beings. I am a human being. I have loved. I was loved."Bernadette Nitakirutinka"No I am still a bum" American Director, Robert Altman, having won awards at Cannes France in 1996.Quotations are compiled by bunpeiris of Sri Lanka Holidays.

Q.Do people respond when you appeal to them on the basis of atmosphere, good manners, good taste?A I feel that this appeal of mine is finding a positive echo, but a very indirect one. here, as in every democracy, we witness all the aspirations, ambitions, battles & hunger for power. My position seems to be the one of a dreamer who mumbles something about ideals, completely untouched by real life, whereas politics takes a different course. But this is a very banal view. In reality it seems to me that my constant repetition of certain things planted seeds.Vaclav Havel, Time, August 3, 1992

"A lover of my fellow creatures,a mere nameless worker for the cause-I aspire to be no more" End of the World News: Anthony Burgess"What Mr.Toomy, do you seek out of life?" "To enjoy it. To fix the phenomena of human society in words" Earthly Powers: Anthony Burgess"I am not bad, I'm just drawn that way" Hollywood animation Jessica Rabbit in the film "Who framed Roger Rabbit" In the film sultry Jessica get laid & rocked by ... no not by me... I am good, them."I have a Dream" -Martin Luther King, Jr. 28th Aug. 1963 Washington D. C."Can we all get along?" -Rodney King, 29th April 1992, Los Angeles"They were human beings. They were killed like flies" -Archbishop Desmond Tutu"Let us forgive these guys"- Nelson Mandela"The more you develop nonviolence in your own being, the more infectious it becomes: we must become the change we seek."Churchill's half- naked fakir"In my view, one of the principal lessons is that the end, no matter how noble & attractive it may seem, never justfies indiscriminate means" Mikhail Gorbachev Time 4th June 1990.

"No I am still a bum" American Director, Robert Altman, having won awards at Cannes France in 1996.Quotations are compiled by bunpeiris of My Sri Lanka Holidays that affords all visitors, all tourist the Total Holiday Experience.

THE bunpeiris ROOTSBaminahennadigeDuring the period of relative peace between the warrior King Rajasinghe the Second (1634-1684 AD) of Senkadagalapura Kandy and the Dutch, at the request of the Dutch Governor of the western and southern coastal belts of Sri Lanka (then called Zeilan by the Dutch; Ceylon by the British who evicted the Dutch in 1805), most possibly Rijcklof van Goesns (1662-1663), (1665-1675) or Rijcklof van Goesns Junior (1675-1679), King Rajasinghe the Secondsent the poet Alagiayawanna Mukaweti of Hiswella, Siyane Korale for the purpose of inscribing "Thombuwa" (Sinhala: consensus) in Dutch ruled areas of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Holidays

Having arrived at a residence of a family at Lakshapatiya, Moratuwa (Mura Atuwa : Sinhala-Sentry Turret) of South Western Coastal belt, the poet Alagiyawenna Mukaveti met the man of the house. The residents of the house belonged to the early medieval clan of Hennedige. Hennedige clan consisted of descendants of military commander Lak Vijaya Singukith Senevi (Senevi : Sinhala-Commander) of Queen Leelawathie (1208-1210 AD, 1221-1222 AD), the consort of King Parakramabu the Great (1164- 1197 AD), the greatest builder of irrigation reservoirs of Sri Lanka including in-land sea like Parakrama Samudra. The location of the one lakh (Sinhala: one hundred thousand) strong army of the commander ( Lakshadipathi: Sinhala-goveoner of one hundred thousand soldiers) became knows as Lakshaptiya (Sinhala: domain of one lakh or one hundred thousand) and the residence of the Commander became known as Senadige (Sinhala: the Commander's) or Henadige or Hennadgie(Sinhala: the well armed soldiers)The residents at the said house consisted of the man of the house, his daughter and her two sons. Chandrabarathi, an Indian Brahmin, the husband of the lady of the house had passed away several years ago. Having heard of the family, the scribe Alagiavenna Mukaveti has proclaimed by marrying an Indian Brahmin, the Sinhalese girl of Hennedige family too has become a Brahmin. The poet went on to name the two sons as the descendants of the family of Bamina Hennedige. Since then the family was known by the name of Baminahennadige. Written by My Sri Lanka Holidays bunpeiris.

Bengali poet Rabindranath
Tagore(Brahmin), theNobel Laureate for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, the finest ever poem-ancient, medieval or modern) upbraided Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(Mahathma Gandhi) for declaring that a massive 15 January
1934 earthquake in Bihar, India leaving thousands dead, was divine retribution
brought on by the oppression of Dalits of India.